# Shea Rial > Principal Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shearial I am driven, energetic, and positive. I am motivated by the desire to make people happy by making the world around them more accessible. I believe that what constitutes good architecture is not tied to any specific platform or technology. I find joy in what I do, and I have fun listening, learning, and sharing what I have learned with others. Above all else, I strive to help the people around me to achieve their goals. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming Jan 2020 – Present ### Senior Lead Software Engineer @ The Walt Disney Company Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA ### Lead Staff Server Engineer @ KIXEYE Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA Leading a team of developers though the implementation of high-traffic high-concurrency server-side game systems. ### Director of Software Engineering @ Mongoose Metrics Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Cleveland, OH Leading a team of developers through the implementation of scalable systems which provided valuable analytics data to our customers regarding their telephone calls. ### Software Engineer @ Revol Wireless Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Independence, OH Using a variety of technologies to create and maintain enterprise applications. I was responsible for maintaining and implementing new features for the primary customer management portal, as well as a number of back-end service integrations with external partners. ### Consultant @ Revol Wireless Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Independence, OH Software development work for internal data management applications. ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shearial - Portfolio: http://www.kixeye.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/shearial JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shearial/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12